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Lessons for Holocaust Day
By Dennis Prager Recently, Jews around the world observed Holocaust Day. This day ought to be universally observed because the lessons of the Holocaust are universal. Here are some… Read more
All Terrorism is Connected
By Shoshana Bryen The Tarnaev brothers were cruelly successful, but they are far from the only terrorists over the past decade with big ideas about carnage in America. There is… Read more
SOUR GRIPES
By Rabbi Avi Shafran Like pretty much all publicity, the heavy reportage of the Siyum HaShas at MetLife Stadium earlier this month was something of a two-edged sword. Over the… Read more
Urgently Needed: Rabbis for Romney
By Richard L. Rubenstein On Tuesday August 21, the Obama campaign launched “Rabbis for Obama,” with a list of some 613 rabbis who had declared their support for the President’s… Read more
Dr. Suess and the Holocaust in France
By Rafael Medoff / JNS.org Seventy years ago this week, 15-year-old Annie Kriegel was sitting in her Paris high school classroom, taking an exam, when her mother suddenly burst into the… Read more
Railroad ad displays a skewed portrait of Israel
By Scott Richman and Larry Grossman We’ve all played the popular arcade game Pac-Man, in which the eponymous character must eat up all the others, one by one, in order… Read more
Gentleman’s Agreement
By John R. Cohn It is obviously easier to criticize how something was covered in the newspaper or who was included in an international or academic forum than to write… Read more
They found the “God-Particle”
By Dennis Prager That was the headline in many of America’s news media. It turns out that the name actually derives from substituting “God-particle” for “goddamn particle,” the original name… Read more
Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir’s legacy
By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger ~ In 1992, the Republican Whip, Senator Alan Simpson from Wyoming, who was critical of Prime Minister Shamir’s policies, told me: “How can I like… Read more
The Stupidest Strategist?
By Daniel Pipes ~ His honors are manifold – Ford Professor of Political Science Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, adjunct professor of political science at Columbia University, former… Read more
